No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world sighofannoyance @lemmy.world 10 mo. ago

How do I "ls -R | cat | grep print" ?

Hi friends! 🤓 I am on a gnulinux and trying to list all files in the active directory and it's subdirectories. I then want to pipe the output to "cat". I want to pipe the output from cat into grep.

Please help! 😅

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grep -r print .

I.e. Grep on print recursively from . (current directory)

Or for more advance search find . -name "*.sh" -exec grep -H print {} \;

I.e find all files with sh extension and run grep on it ({} become the filename). -H to include filename in output.
- this is great ty!

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